Sentence examples for how delighted was from inspiring English sources

Customer ratings are mainly indexed to value: "For what I paid, how delighted was I?" Service is the key variable.

Yet her personality is pure girl-next-door: she is a natural with the audience, and has us in the palm of her hand from the start, cooing charmingly about how wonderful we are, how delighted she is to be here, and just how special are her special guests.

"But I was surprised how delighted I was and how delighted everyone else was by the Tony nomination.

That is the nature of O.C.D. Enter music and rhythm: you can imagine how delighted I was to be actually required to count the beats in a piece of music.

She tells me how much she has enjoyed working with the Danish film-maker Thomas Vinterberg on the forthcoming adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd, how delighted she was to be chosen by the Coen brothers for Inside Llewyn Davis, which she actually completed ages ago.

But when I told a White friend where I was moving and how delighted I was that my kids would be attending Westerville Public Schools, she winced.

When I was seven my headteacher told me how delighted she was that my mother was going to speak at speech day.

Along these lines, I often think of a (different) colleague, in child psychology, who gleefully, in a public meeting, pointed out how delighted she was that there were zero men in the class she was teaching.

Out of interest, we were contacted by another reader this week who wrote to say that a train conductor she met on holiday last year, who lived in York, was saying how delighted he was that his rail company had upped the "commission rate he received on tickets sold on the train to people unable to produce a proper ticket".

The Kiwis are growing a little weary of being charmed by the Irish who arrive, say how down on their luck they are, how delighted they were to give NZ their vote for the World Cup and, by the by, is it not going to be the grandest tournament, all right... and who then depart with a couple of signatures safely on an Irish contract.

3.03pm BST Ryan Giggs has posted an open letter on the Manchester United website: Today is a fantastic day for Manchester United. Louis van Gaal is a great appointment and let me begin by telling you how delighted I am to be working with someone of his calibre.